Python Job Trends in Cheshire

Python
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 24 37 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 2.72% 4.48% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 15.95% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 31
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,800 £42,874
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £56,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,490 £50,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% -23.15% +29.77%
75th Percentile £64,281 £59,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,100 £77,900 £84,056
North West median annual salary £58,625 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.29% - -

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 232 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.19% 28.12% 36.88%
Number of salaries quoted 97 130 130
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.53% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £87,875
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Python job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Python
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheshire

Python
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 13 £60,000 - 9
Warrington +7 6 £42,500 -29.17% 12
Macclesfield -4 2 £40,000 +23.08% 8
Crewe -7 2 £65,000 +30.00% 3
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) SAS
3 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Datadog
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) DHCP
2 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 2 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) GIS
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
1 5 (20.83%) GitLab
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) CA Release Automation
3 1 (4.17%) CANoe
3 1 (4.17%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
3 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (33.33%) Banking
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Games
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.33%) Games Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Graduate
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Games Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Administrator
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
4 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) DPDK
1 3 (12.50%) eBPF
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) Django
3 1 (4.17%) Flash
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Keras
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) NETCONF
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.17%) RESTCONF
3 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.17%) NVMe
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
5 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) Machine Learning
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
6 4 (16.67%) AI
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Data Science
6 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
2 5 (20.83%) R
3 3 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
5 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) HNC
3 1 (4.17%) HND
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (12.50%) KVM
2 3 (12.50%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.83%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SaltStack
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Pega
4 1 (4.17%) TOWER Software